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Beyond smiles: The impact of culture and race in embodying and decoding facial expressions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 December 2010

Roberto Caldara
Roberto Caldara
Affiliation:
Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging (CCNi), Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QB, United Kingdom; and Département de Psychologie, Université de Fribourg, 1700 Fribourg, Switzerland. r.caldara@psy.gla.ac.ukhttp://www.psy.gla.ac.uk/~roberto/
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Abstract

Understanding the very nature of the smile with an integrative approach and a novel model is a fertile ground for a new theoretical vision and insights. However, from this perspective, I challenge the authors to integrate culture and race in their model, because both factors would impact upon the embodying and decoding of facial expressions.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 33 , Issue 6 , December 2010 , pp. 438 - 439
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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